PAPVB_16 Historical Interpretations of the Aegean Bronze Age

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D. (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Valášková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 K32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
Course objectives
This course focuses on contemporary models for the historical interpretation of key issues of the Aegean Bronze Age, in connection with other related regions including the Balkans and Central Europe.
Syllabus
  • 1. Chronology – its development, problems and issues of synchronization with the chronological systems of other related regions 2. The rise of the palace culture in Crete in connection with climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean 3. Problems of the Early and Middle Helladic periods; the Indo-Europeans question 4. Neopalatial period – many sources, many questions, facts and fabulation 5. Mycenaean mainland – problems of the palatial centers and rural areas 6. Santorini volcanic eruption – one of the most frequently discussed topic of European prehistory 7. Crete and Mycenae – interrelations of the regions in the Late Palatial Period 8. Aegean and Egypt – questions of distance in the Bronze Age 9. Fall of the palatial civilizations – continuity versus discontinuity 10. Homer’s myths – fairy tales or facts? 11. Sea Peoples 12. Global European context of the Bronze Age 13. Cosmology of the European Bronze Age
Literature
  • Manning, S. 1999: A Test of Time. Oxford.
  • Betancourt, P. P. 2007: Introduction to Aegean Art. Philadelphia.
  • Gitin, S., M. Amihai and E. Stern (eds.) 1998: Mediterranean Peoples in Transition. Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries B. C. E. Jerusalem.
  • Dickinson, O. T. P. K. 1994: The Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
  • Cullen, T. (ed.) 2001: Aegean Prehistory: A Review. AJA Suppl. I. Boston.
  • Renfrew, C. 1972: The emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B. C. London.
  • Drews, R. 1993: The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in warfare and the Catastrophe ca 1200 B. C. Princeton.
  • Harding, A. 1984: Mycenaeans and Europe. New York.
  • Klontza-Jaklova, V. 2008: Datierung der Katastrophe von Santorini. Kurze Zusammenfassung des bisherigen Standes der Forschung und vorherrschende Tendenzen. Anodos. Trnava.
  • Oren, E. D. (ed.) 2000: The Sea Peoples and Their World. A Reassessment. Philadelphia.
  • The Oxford handbook of the Bronze age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC). Edited by Eric H. Cline. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, xxxiii, 93. ISBN 9780195365504. info
  • The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xxxvi, 452. ISBN 9780521891271. info
  • KRISTIANSEN, Kristian and Thomas B. LARSSON. The rise of Bronze Age society : travels, transmissions and transformations. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005, xiv, 449. ISBN 9780521604666. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. The aegean, anatolia and Europe : cultural interrelations in the second millennium B.C. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1985, 269 s. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture
Assessment methods
For credit obtaining is necessary attendance and an essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
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